About The Texts

Texts featured in 'Wives, Women and Wimples'

About half of the texts come from the Wollaton Library Collection, with the remainder from various other medieval collections held by The University of Nottingham.

The links on this page take you to a description and commentary relating to each text as it features in 'Wives, Women and Wimples', a full digital image of the text, and (for written texts), a transcript and a summary in modern English.

WLC/LM/8, John Gower, Confessio Amantis . A collection of narratives drawn from ancient history and classical myths and legends, within the frame of a confession made by an ageing lover (Amans) to a priest of Venus. Composed c.1393, in a book created c.1425 (English)

Special Collection JN147.T4. Extract from Magna Carta (1215), from Richard Thomson, An historical essay on the Magna charta of King John … (London : Printed for John Major ... and Robert Jennings ..., 1829)

Items from other institutions' collections

Catalogue records for medieval material held by The University of Nottingham

Documents are described on the Manuscripts Online Catalogue on the Manuscripts and Special Collections website, and in printed catalogues in the Manuscripts and Special Collections Reading Room.

The online catalogue can be searched or browsed by going to the online catalogue's Search Catalogue records search form.

To search across one or many catalogues, enter your search term/s into the form. The AnyText field allows you to do a free-text search across multiple text fields.

To search for medieval material, you can qualify your search term/s by also entering your required date range into the DatesOfCreation field, e.g. 1066-1500; 1200-1300; 1485.

To browse the descriptions for a particular collection, as you would a printed catalogue, enter its reference number (e.g. WLC for the Wollaton Library Collection) into the DocumentRef field, click 'View' to see the full details for a particular record, and then 'Click here to view this record in context'.

The following collections contain significant amounts of medieval material: